{"id":140399,"date":"2014-10-06T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=140399"},"modified":"2014-10-06T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:33:40","slug":"new-york-times-may-carry-ebola-without-showing-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-may-carry-ebola-without-showing-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Some May Carry Ebola Without Showing Any Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by WashingtonsBlog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Washingtons Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the \u201cConventional Wisdom\u201d All Wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a title=\"reported\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/national\/science\/health\/062700hth-ebola.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in 2000:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ebola virus, which has caused deaths from high fever and bleeding in African outbreaks, can also <strong>infect without producing illness<\/strong>, according to a new finding by African and European scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of asymptomatic infection was only suggested in earlier studies, they said in last week\u2019s issue of The Lancet, a medical journal published in London. Now they said they had documented such infections for the first time. They found that <strong>the Ebola virus could persist in the blood of asymptomatic infected individuals for two weeks after they were first exposed to an infected individual<\/strong>. How much longer the virus can persist is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>If people can be carriers without showing symptoms, it means control might be more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis degree of containment would be virtually impossible if symptom-free carriers posed a significant threat of infection,\u201d Dr. Alan G. Baxter of Newtown, Australia, wrote in an editorial in the same issue of The Lancet.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>An immediate effect is to raise the <strong>need to reassess health policy<\/strong> about one of the most virulent viruses known and to determine how often healthy carriers transmit it, said the scientific team headed by Dr. E. M. Leroy of Franceville, Gabon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/new-york-times-may-carry-ebola-without-showing-symptoms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washingtons Blog Is the \u201cConventional Wisdom\u201d All Wrong? The New York Times reported in 2000: The Ebola virus, which has caused deaths from high fever and bleeding in African outbreaks, can also infect without producing illness, according to a new finding by African and European scientists. The possibility of asymptomatic infection was only suggested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}